Ron Hari started making strudel when he was in the 7th grade. His mother, tired of his requests for her homemade strudel, told him to make it himself. And so he did. Here he is rolling cabbage strudel to ready it for the oven. Hari is now minister of the Hungarian Evangelical Reformed Church in Bethlehem, PA, and making strudel is how the church, which has a dwindling membership, raises money for expenses.Parishioners get together through much of the year to make apple, cabbage, sour cherry and cheese, turnip, and rutabaga strudel. Thanks to the demand for the homemade strudel, there is a waiting list. I got my first order last September, then another in December. My favorite is the cabbage or maybe the rutabaga. It could be the turnip but this was a bad year for turnips. At the same time, the apple and sour cherry and cheese, too, are delicious. The "Strudelers", as the volunteer bakers call themselves, are a local treasure.
